But I can be both simultaneously? I can feel solidarity with someone while acknowledging we aren’t the same, I’m fantastically in a better position and my lived experience is nothing compared to theirs?
Telling someone who’s food insecure making $15k/yr and the dude who’s 1 week from bankruptcy making $80k/yr don’t have much in common life experience wise, and the dude making $15k would trade in a heartbeat. Because they’re actually starving.
I agree, except that I think the comparison is useful and does not belittle the the materially worse conditions of someone who is worse off.
I’m just going to resort to analogy: it’s like saying we have a shared humanity with someone on death row. Saying we share something is a connection between us. It’s not saying the differences between us are trivial.
But I can be both simultaneously? I can feel solidarity with someone while acknowledging we aren’t the same …
But I can be both simultaneously? I can feel solidarity with someone while acknowledging we aren’t the same, I’m fantastically in a better position and my lived experience is nothing compared to theirs?
Telling someone who’s food insecure making $15k/yr and the dude who’s 1 week from bankruptcy making $80k/yr don’t have much in common life experience wise, and the dude making $15k would trade in a heartbeat. Because they’re actually starving.
I agree, except that I think the comparison is useful and does not belittle the the materially worse conditions of someone who is worse off.
I’m just going to resort to analogy: it’s like saying we have a shared humanity with someone on death row. Saying we share something is a connection between us. It’s not saying the differences between us are trivial.
I agree 100% with this